cabinets

Noun

cabinet (plural cabinets)

1. A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
2. A cupboard.
   • ‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the...1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
3. A museum display case.
   • Here I obtained the rare and beautiful swallow-tail butterflies, Papilio aenomaus and P. liris; the males of which are quite unlike each other, and belong in fact to distinct sections of the genus, while the females are so much alike that they are undistinguishable on the wing, and to an uneducated...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 297
4. (figuratively) A source of valuable things; a storehouse.
   • It is a perfect cabinet of faithful, valuable, and extensive information; and it ought to have a place on the shelves of the most select and compact library, and be in the possession of every private family, as a work both of valuable reference.1844 August, “Notices of New Works: The Travels of Marco Polo, greatly Amended and Enlarged, from Valuable early Manuscripts recently published by the French Society of Geography, and [in] Italy, by...
5. The upright assembly that houses a coin-operated arcade game, a cab.
6. (historical) A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞" by 5½".
   • Holmes took a note of it. “One other question,” said he. “Was the photograph a cabinet?”1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal In Bohemia, Norton, published 2005, page 19

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